Summer

Comment me on my post and tell me what you are doing over the summer???

Schools Out

"The School Year is Almost Over"


As you all know the weather is nice with the hot sun and warm weather. We are stuck in school studying for regents and final exams , when you want to be outside in the in weather and not in school. Don't worry about that we will be out of school soon and all the lovely seniors will be gone and off in life .


We had a lot of good times these years with homecoming , Snowball Battle of the classes (which Juniors rule ) and many more to happen in the years .

Well Have a great summer and stay safe.
GOODBYE TO ALL THE SENIORS!

CHEERLEADING IS A SPORT

CHEERLEADERS ARE ATHLETES


As many people say, "Cheerleading is not a sport"but indeed it is a sport. Cheerleading is a sport that uses organized routines made from elements of some tumbling, dance, jumps and stunting to direct the event's spectators to cheer on sports teams at games and matches or compete at cheerleading competitions. The athlete that are involved are called cheerleaders. The growing presentation of the sport to a global audience has been led by the 1997 start of broadcasts of cheerleading competition by ESPN International and the worldwide release of the 2000 film Bring it On. This recent exposure, there are now an estimated 100,000 participants scattered around the rest of the world in countries.

History on Cheerleading

Cheerleading first appeared in the United States in the late 1880s with the crowd chanting as a way to encourage school spirit at athletic events. The first organized, recorded cheer was yelled "Ray, Ray, Ray! A few years later, Princeton graduate, Thomas Peebles introduced the idea of organized crowd cheering at football games to the University of Minnesota. However, it was not until 1898 that University of Minnesota student Johnny Campbell directed a crowd in cheering "Rah, Rah, Rah! Sku-u-mar, Hoo-Rah! Hoo-Rah! Varsity! Varsity! Varsity, Minn-e-So-Tah!”, making Campbell the very first cheerleader and November 2, 1898 the official birth date of organized cheerleading. Soon after, the organized a "yell leader" squad of 6 male students, who still use Campbell's original cheer today. Cheerleading started out as an all-male activity, but females began participating in 1923, due to limited availability of female collegiate sports. At this time, gymnastics, tumbling, and megaphones were incorporated into popular cheers. Today it is estimated that 97% of cheerleading participants are female, but males still makeup 50% of collegiate cheering squads. Cheerleading is most closely associated with American football and basketball. Sports such as soccer, ice hockey, volleyball, baseball, and wrestling sometimes sponsor cheerleading squads.

Types of Teams

School Sponcer

Most American high schools and colleges have organized cheerleading squads made up solely of students. Several colleges that compete at cheerleading competitions offer cheerleading scholarships. Some military academies use their drill team or color guard team instead of a cheersquad at athletic events.

Young Leagues

Many organisations that sponsor youth league football or basketball sponsor cheerleading squads as well. Pop Warner organizations are an example of this.

Sport Debates

Cheerleading among others has had debate on whether or not it truly is a sport. Supporters consider Cheerleading as a whole as a sport citing the heavy use of athletic talents while critics do not see it as deserving of that status since sport implies a competition among squads and not all squads compete along with subjectivity of competitions. There are also some that believe that only certain aspects, namely Competitive Cheerleading, can be considered a sport. While individuals and organizations have their own beliefs, no one answer has emerged.

Dangers of Cheerleading

As a Cheerleader, they have many injuries that have to do with stunting and tossing. As a result of the fall, the Missouri Valley Conference banned tossing or launching of cheerleaders, and no pyramid could be higher than two levels during that conference's women's basketball tournament. Additionally, the American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Administrators recommended banning basket tosses and high pyramids without mats. Though the group has no authority to prevent such routines, the NCAA requires cheerleading squads to conform to the group's requirements. The AACCA rules committee made the bans permanent on July 11, 2006.

WHY SHOULD WE BAN RAP MUSIC FROM T.V AND RADIOS...???

AWAY WITH RAP MUSIC

As a parent, how would you feel if your four year old child listened to explicit rap music? Child also started to repeat lyrics that were violent and sexual? The lyrics have many ways to get to children’s heads and make them react differently when they listen to rap music. Lyrics and music videos have many sexual and inappropriate images and words. All rap music must be banned from T.V and radio.

Rap music has many inappropriate words and images. Just in two lines of the lyrics it contained many vulgar words mainly pointed to women. These lyrics by Too Short “Bitch…I just want f--- you and cut treat yea like a trammpy slut”. By have juveniles listen to those words, young boy will think it is ok to call women and girls those names and treat them differently and unfair. Juveniles listening to lyrics made the juveniles arrest rates for murder increase by 85 percent. In rap videos you see women dressed in very little clothing, and are dressed this way to promote sex. Rap music has many harmful words that we don’t need young children to hear and repeat.

Rap music makes kids become violent. Children Who watch T.V and play video games have more anger and violent than the children who don’t watch TV and play video games. Now over thousand of studies have connections between television violence and real life violence. Children who see violent shows are more likely to engage in aggressive behavior. When children play these video games they assume if the game has killing and vulgar language, so can they. Rap music has a lot of violence that will make children become more violent.

Rap music makes children dress and act differently. Many children look up to rappers and want to dress and act how there role models act. The children who have role model rappers only see the rappers in there music videos and hear them on the radios.what children see older role model do, is what they would think is right and want to do what there role models are doing. Many rappers dress in big baggy clothes and rap to music that is harmful to women by calling them hoes sluts and bitches.Children that watch TV and see there role model rappers dress and act this way make the children also act and dress this way.

Rap music makes children become violent to the fact of killing people for no reason. The children see violence all around and as well as on TV they see violence. What children see on TV they think is fine and want to try the violence with killing people on video games with real life? In Colorado Springs had a spate of shootings, that has a rising murder rate, the police there are saying gangster rap is a contributing to the violence. On July 9, a former high school star, was shot and killed. The police issued a new release blaming the violence to gangster rap. Many of the young children go to school. Would you like this to happen to schools around neighborhoods?

Rap music shows inappropriate images and makes children turn violent. All rap music shouldn’t be aloud on TV and radios. Would you want children to end up listening to the hatred words and images rap music brings?

WHY CAN'T THEY LOVE EACH OTHER ????

WHY IS IT WRONG FOR PEOPLE TO LIKE THE SAME SEX??

Over many years marriage has changed by the same sexes getting married. There are alot of people that are for marriage and have no probably, but the other half oppose it. Now just ask about anyone. They'll tell you they're in favor of equal rights for homosexuals. Just name the situation, and ask. They'll all say, yes, gays should have the same rights in housing, jobs, public accomodations, and should have equal access to government benefits, equal protection of the law. Then when you get to gay marriage. That's when all this talk of equality stops dead cold.


It's because there is a lot of misunderstanding about what homosexuality really is, as well as the that gay people enjoy the same civil rights protections as everyone else. There are also a lot of stereotypes about gay relationships, and even a great deal of misunderstanding of what marriage itself is all about and what its purpose is. The purpose of this is to clear up a few of these misunderstandings and discuss some of facts surrounding gay relationships and marriage, gay and straight.


Let's discuss what gay relationships are really all about. The stereotype have it that gays are promiscuous, unable to form lasting relationships, and the relationships that do form are shallow and uncommitted. But most gays do have such relationships. But the important fact to note is that just like in straight society, where such relationships also exist, they are a small amount, and exist primarily among the very young. Indeed, one of the most frequent complaints of older gay men is that it is almost impossible to find quality single men to get into a relationship with, because they're already all 'taken.

If you attend any gay event, such as a Pride festival , you'll find this to be true. As gays age and mature, just like their straight, they begin to appreciate and find their way into long-term committed relationships.A benefit to heterosexual society of gay marriage is the fact that the commitment of a marriage means the participants are discouraged from promiscous sex. This has the advantage of slowing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, which know no sexual orientation and are equal opportunity destroyers.

These benefits of gay marriage have changed the attitudes of the majority of people in other countries where various forms of gay marriage have been legal for years. Polls show that most people there now recognize that the benefits far outweigh the trivial costs, and that far from threatening heterosexual marriage, gay marriage has actually strenghtened it.

So, having established the value of gay marriage, why are people so opposed to it?
The real reasons people oppose
gay marriage

Just not comfortable with the idea. The fact the people aren't comfortable with the idea stems primarily from the fact that for many years, society has promoted the idea that a marriage between members of the same sex is ludicrous, mainly because of the objections raised above. But if those objections don't make sense, neither does the idea that gay marriage is necessarily ludicrous. Societies have long recognized that allowing civil rights to certain groups may offend some, and at times, even the majority. But that is why constitutional government was established -- to ensure that powerless, unpopular minorities are still protected from the tyranny of the majority.

The thought of gay sex is repulsive. It will come as some surprise to a lot of heterosexuals to find out that, to a lot of gays, the thought of heterosexual sex is repulsive. But does that mean the discomfort of some gays to heterosexual couples should be a reason to deny heterosexuals the right to marry? I don't think so, even though the thought of a man kissing a woman is rather repulsive to many homosexuals.Why should it work just one way? Besides, the same sexual practices that gays engage in are often engaged in by heterosexual couples anyway - prompting the ever-popular gay T-shirt: "SO-DO-MY -- SO DO MY neighbors, SO DO